Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.56

c19.56

Vācaspatimiśra, 305 Vāgurikas (tribal people), 174, 344 vaidehakas (mixed caste), 226, 229, 290, 336 vaidya (mixed caste), 289, 344 Vaijavāpa Gṛhyasūtra, 298-9 Vaiśālī, 182, 270, 309 Vaiṣṇava, 232 Vaiṣṇavism, 207, 232, 308-9, 311, 324 Vaiśvadeva ceremony, 283 vaiśyas, in the early Vedic period, 32, 34, 44; in the later Vedic period, 37, 49, 52-3, 57-64, 65, 68, 71-2, 75-8, 80-82, 84, 86-7; in the pre-Mauryan period, 94-5, 97, 102, 113-7, 119, 123, 126, 128-32, 136, 142, 152, 153-4, 156; in the Mauryan period, 161-3, 165, 174, 176-7, 184; in the post-Mauryan period, 192-4, 202-3, 206, 232-3, 236, 238, 243; in the Gupta period, 253, 257, 258-9; vaiśya-śūdra social formation, 260-61, 278, 270, 272, 276-84, 287, 289, 298, 301-3, 307-9, 311, 316-21 vaiśya varga (of the Amarakosa), 257, 290 Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, 62, 72, 80, 84 Vajrasūci, 247, 294, 307, 310-11 Valabhī, 256, 334, 337 Vana Parvan (of the Mahābhārata), 310 Varāhadāsa (brāhmaṇa), 282 Varāhamihira, 247, 268 Vardhamāna Mahāvīra, 41 varṇa (division and system), 32-3, 72-3, 80, 95 varṇa, 243, 248, 260, 298, 305, 315; as a mechanism for production and distribution, 323, 330, 332, 336-8, 340 varṇasaṃkara, 333 varṇāśrama ideals, 247 Varuṇa, 17, 35, 71 Vasantasenā, 288, 311 Vasiṣṭha, 18, 70, 91, 113, 118, 123, 127, 130-31, 133, 136, 143, 153-4, 156, 184, 216, 231-32, 242, 263, 281, 311, 336 Vasiṣṭha Dharmaśāstra, 280 Vasiṣṭha Dharmasūtra, 158 Vāsudeva, 308, 341 Vaṭadhāna, 333-4 Vatsa (ṛṣi), 69 Vātsyāyana, 247, 288 Vāyu Purāṇa, 234, 237, 281, 286-7 Vedānta Sūtra, 42 Vedas, 28, 72, 75, 128, 133-4, 144, 187, 231-3, 269, 271, 293-4, 296, 308, 313 Vedic Aryans, 40 Vedic gods, 81 Vedic Index, 20, 50, 68, 89, 316 Vedic Indians, 21-2, 70, 73-4 Vedic pantheon, 22 Vedic texts, 35, 131, 133 veṇas (mixed caste), 142, 145, 186, 225, 227 Veṇa, the tyrannical king, 143 Videgha Māthava, 96 Vijanma, 333, 335 Vijñāneśvara (commentator), 285 Vilāla, 344 Vinaya Piṭaka, 91, 106, 109, 137, 155 Vindhya, 195 Viṣāṇin (people), 18 Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa, 248, 327 Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 78, 208, 238, 243, 246 Viṣṇu Smṛti, 246 Viṣṇu, the God, 308, 311, 327 Viṣṇu, the Smṛti of, 245-6, 257, 263, 265-6, 273-5, 277, 287, 296 Viṣṇuvarddhaki, 344 Viśvedevas (all Gods), 81